The Elijah Legacy

by David Davis

Chapter From The Elijah Legacy

The Rise and Fall of Islam

n the seventh and eighth centuries A.D. Muslim hordes swept out I of what is today Saudi Arabia and overran the Middle East. The spirit of Islam came upon the nations that surround Israel today. We have seen how the Lord used the prophetic ministries of Elijah and Elisha to confront and defeat the powers of darkness in and surrounding Israel in their generation. As terrible as the darkness was in Elijah’s day, today the situation facing Israel is much worse. Three hundred million Muslims surround five and a half million Jews. Israel is less than ten miles wide at one point. You can drive across it in ten minutes! A fierce war in the heavenlies is being waged against Israel and God’s end-time purposes. The spirit of Islam has descended like a cloud of locusts upon the Middle East. The forerunner and finisher ministries of Elijah and Elisha offer a powerful prophetic foreshadowing and example for us to follow at this kairos moment. These two prophets understood the enemy clearly. The church today needs revelation concerning the nature of Islam. We need to know our enemy if we are to be aligned with 2 The Rise and Fall of Islam The Rise and Fall of Islam 3 the Lord in His last-days conflict with Islam. The roots of the conflict The-God-Who-Sees,” for she said, “Have I also seen Him who sees between Islam, Israel, the church and the West can be traced back me?” (v. 13). I believe the Lord Jesus appeared and prophesied to to the time of Abraham. her in a theophany. Hagar obeyed the Lord and she bore a son, who On September 11, 2001, the demonic spirit of Islam was exposed was returned to Abraham. The child was to be “a wild man,” violent to all the world for those who have eyes to see. We who live and and aggressive against all. God named him Ishmael and also serve the Lord in Israel experience this most ancient of hatreds on prophesied that he would dwell near his brothers. an almost daily basis. Since the rebirth of the nation of Israel in 1948, when five Arab armies attempted to destroy the infant state, God’s Promises to Ishmael – the Arab People thousands of Arabs and Jews have died in the on-going deadly conflict. The Arab people claim descent from Ishmael, Hagar’s son. Thirteen Since September 2001, over two thousand Arabs and Jews have died. years after the birth of Ishmael when Abraham was ninety-nine, God But the current situation surrounding Israel is just the latest told the patriarch that Sarah would bear him a son. Abraham loved manifestation of an ancient hatred that goes all the way back to the his teenage boy, Ishmael, and cried out to God about him: “ ‘Oh, time of Abraham. that Ishmael might live before You!’ Then God said, ‘No, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; I will Hagar and Ishmael establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and Over four thousand years of hostilities between Arabs and Jews with his descendants after him’ ” (Gen. 17:18-19). God also answered began because of the sin of unbelief. Sarah and Abraham did not Abraham’s prayer for Ishmael: “And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. wait for the fulfillment of God’s prophetic promise. Here is the Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will genesis of the world’s longest running family feud: “Then Sarah, multiply him exceedingly. He shall beget twelve princes, and I will Abram’s wife, took Hagar her maid, the Egyptian, and gave her to make him a great nation. But My covenant I will establish with her husband Abram to be his wife, after Abram had dwelt ten years Isaac” (vs. 20-21). in the land of Canaan” (Gen. 16:3). When Hagar, the Egyptian maid became pregnant she began to “despise” her mistress, Sarah. Abram’s God’s Covenant for the Land and the Messiah wife dealt “harshly” with her pregnant maid and Hagar “fled from through Isaac her presence. Now the Angel of the Lord found her by the spring of This has been the crux of the controversy between the Arab and water in the wilderness” (16:7). The Lord had mercy on Hagar and the Jewish people for nearly four thousand years. God’s covenant Abraham’s child whom she carried. God gave the distraught Hagar promises for the land of Canaan and the coming Messiah are through this prophecy: “Behold, you are with child, and you shall bear a son. Isaac. God also promised that Ishmael would be blessed by exceeding You shall call his name Ishmael [“God hears”], because the Lord has fruitfulness, and that he would be a great nation. A glance at a map heard your affliction. He shall be a wild man; his hand shall be of the Middle East will clearly show that this prophecy has been against every man, and every man’s hand against him. And he shall fulfilled. dwell in the presence of all his brethren” (vs. 11-12). When Isaac (“laughter”), the miracle child of the covenant, Hagar called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, “You-Are- was born, relatives and friends of Abraham and Sarah celebrated with 4 The Rise and Fall of Islam The Rise and Fall of Islam 5 a great feast. All rejoiced for the patriarch, his wife and child, except of sibling strife. Even as Isaac’s wife Rebekah gave birth, the twin Hagar and Ishmael, who was “scoffing [“mocking”]” (Gen. 21:9). boys struggled together in her womb. The Lord told her that, “Two Sarah told her husband to put the “bondwoman” and her son out of nations are in your womb, two peoples are separated from your body; the house. Abraham was deeply distressed because of his love for one people shall be stronger than the other, and the older shall serve Ishmael, but the Lord told him to obey his wife. The aging patriarch the younger” (Gen. 25:23). Esau the older of the twins became a sent Hagar and his son Ishmael away. The agonizing wound of skillful hunter and was his father’s favorite. But “Rebekah loved rejection cut Hagar and Ishmael deeply. Jacob.” Esau who was called “Edom” (“red”) sold his birthright, the Ishmael and his mother wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba double portion of the eldest son, to Jacob. “Thus Esau despised his (“seven wells”). There in the desert the mother and son drank their birthright” (v. 34). Later when Esau realized that Jacob had received last water. Hagar put Ishmael under a shrub to guard him from the the father’s blessing of the firstborn, “He cried with an exceedingly sun. In her loneliness and misery, “she said to herself, ‘Let me not great and bitter cry….and said to his father, ‘Have you only one see the death of the boy.’ So she sat opposite him, and lifted her blessing, my father? Bless me—me also, O my father!’ And Esau voice and wept” (v. 16). I have always felt this is a deeply moving lifted up his voice and wept” (Gen. 27:34,38). Isaac then prophesied picture of the Arab people, weeping in the desert over the wound of over Esau: “By your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your rejection inflicted upon them by Father Abraham. God still hears brother; and it shall come to pass, when you become restless that that cry today, even as he heard Ishmael then: “And God heard the you shall break his yoke from your neck” (v. 40). voice of the lad” (v. 17). (This is a play on words of Ishmael’s name.) Ishmael hated Isaac, and now in the next generation, “Esau hated He also answered the tears of the mother of the Arab people. “Fear Jacob.” The oldest son sold his father’s blessing for a bowl of lentils not, for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is. Arise, lift up and then declared, “I will kill my brother Jacob” (v. 41). the lad and hold him with your hand, for I will make him a great nation” (vs. 17-18). “The-God-Who-Sees” then “opened her eyes and Esau Married into Ishmael’s Family she saw a well of water….So God was with the lad” (vs. 19-20). Cunning Jacob fled from his vindictive twin brother. Esau, now Ishmael began to live in the desert where he took an Egyptian in open rebellion against his father, “saw that the daughters of Canaan wife. Many children were born to him, and his sons roamed the did not please his father Isaac, so Esau went to Ishmael and took desert often in conflict with others. Indeed, twelve Arabian princes Mahalath [“disease”] the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son….to were his legacy (see Gen. 25:12–17). When Abraham died, Isaac and be his wife” (Gen. 28:8-9). (She was his third wife.) Esau knowingly Ishmael, the two half-brothers, buried their father in Hebron, in the married into the line of Ishmael and the Canaanites, a people cursed cave of Machpelah, which the patriarch had purchased. (To this day by Noah. (See Gen. 9:22–25.) the battle between Arabs and Jews still rages in this place. Twelve While Esau was joining himself to the house of Ishmael and the Israelis were murdered there in December 2002.) idol-worshipping Canaanites, Jacob had an encounter with the God of his fathers in a dream. The Lord renewed His covenant and told “Two Nations Are in Your Womb” Jacob, “the land on which you lie I will give to you and your The family of Abraham was about to enter its second generation descendants…and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be 6 The Rise and Fall of Islam The Rise and Fall of Islam 7 blessed” (28:13-14). Jacob woke up and was terrified. “How awesome Esau and their descendants were spawning a massive pagan progeny, is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is Jacob fathered twelve sons, who became the patriarchs of the twelve the gate of heaven!” (v. 17). God’s holy covenant promises are to the tribes of Israel. seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—not to Ishmael and Esau. The This is the biblical background which has fostered such deep conferring of the covenant was God’s sovereign choice. Jacob, “the enmity between three hundred million Arabs (the descendants of supplanter,” was asleep. God’s initiating grace renewed and released Ishmael and Esau), now surrounding five and a half million Jews His covenant promises to the third generation. (descendents of Isaac and Jacob), now living in a narrow strip of the In order to biblically understand the conflict that rages over Israel land given them from God by His holy covenant. When we see in the Middle East we must trace its roots. At the death of Isaac, the “Edom” or “Seir” in the Psalms, Prophets or New Testament, they second patriarch, his two boys were also there. “His sons Esau and are references to the offspring of Esau and Ishmael, sworn enemies Jacob buried him” (35:29). Esau and Jacob were twin brothers. of the Jewish people. Ishmael and Isaac were half-brothers with the same father—Abraham. Arabs and Jews today are their descendants. Amalekites The wandering desert tribe of Amalek ambushed Israel shortly “Esau is Edom” after the nation came out of Egypt (Ex. 17:3). The founder of the The entire chapter of Genesis 36 is devoted to the genealogy of tribe was a grandson of Esau. Amalek means “warlike.” As Joshua Esau. It begins with this statement: “Now this is the genealogy of battled the Amalekites in the valley, Moses’ prayers on the mountain Esau, who is Edom” (v. 11). It is most important for those of us who brought victory. Because the Amalekites attacked the sick, elderly, hope to understand God’s purposes to realize that “Esau” is “Edom.” the stragglers and the women, God put a curse upon them: “ ‘I will We are told this important fact three times in this chapter. Esau, utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven!’ the one who would “live by the sword,” took more wives from the And Moses built an altar and called its name, The-Lord-Is-My-Banner; daughters of Canaan, including Hittite and Hivite women. Later, for he said, ‘Because the Lord has sworn: the Lord will have war with Esau moved his wives, children and grandchildren to Mount Seir, Amalek from generation to generation’ ” (vs. 14–16). which in scripture becomes synonymous with Esau and the Edomites. King Saul was removed as Israel’s first king because he disobeyed The word “seir” means “rough male goat,” “devil,” or “satyr.” A satyr God and did not utterly destroy the Amalekites. Saul spared Agag, was a half-goat, half-male demon. Satyrs in pagan religions were king of the Amalekites, but the prophet Samuel “hacked Agag in synonymous with lechery and rape. pieces before the Lord in Gilgal” (1 Sam. 15:33). Haman in the Book Esau and Ishmael had become one large family or tribe. In the of Esther was an Amalekite. Herod the Great at the time of Jesus recorded genealogies of Esau-Edom and Ishmael (the Arab people) was an Edomite usurper of the throne of David. He is remembered we find names of individuals and tribes who later would become for the massacre of innocent Jewish children, the murder of several murderous enemies of God’s covenant people. Israel is the name of his sons, and his appalling death. Haman and Herod both tried God gave to Esau’s twin brother, Jacob. Some of these mortal enemies to destroy the Jews and the Lord’s Messiah. They came from the line of Israel include: Kedar, Teman, Omar and Amalek. As Ishmael and of Ishmael-Esau-Edom. 8 The Rise and Fall of Islam The Rise and Fall of Islam 9

The Rise of Islam the Islamic flag) of Mesopotamia, has no son. This god is not the In the eighth century AD, Muslim armies swept out of the Arabian God of the Bible. peninsula (Saudi Arabia today) and conquered the Middle East, Mohammed claimed to be a prophet who received “messages” northern Africa, Spain, Turkey and the Balkans. Their armies were from the angel Gabriel, who had announced the incarnation of Jesus finally stopped in France and Austria. The schisms, corruption, and to a Jewish virgin named Miriam (Mary). Mohammed contended heresies of the Roman and Greek Orthodox churches had opened the that Islam was the true fulfillment of both the Old and New Testaments way for the ascendancy of this demonic religion. Any objective history and had replaced them. According to Mohammed the Gospels were book will show that Islam is a religion birthed and bathed in blood. a perversion of the truth which he was restoring. He rejected Mohammed received visions and words from “spirits,” which became Christianity and thought the Jewish people would become his incorporated into the Koran, a book dedicated to the subjection of followers. When they in turn rejected him and his new anti-Christ the world to a false god, called “Allah.” religion, the Muslims turned against the Jews as well and became The word “Islam” means “submission.” The Mohammedan hordes their persecutors. slaughtered, raped and pillaged millions in the seventh and eighth Islam bears unmistakable marks of the “spirit of anti-Christ.” centuries. Mohammed’s own harem of “wives” included an eleven- Not only does it deny the divinity and atoning death of Jesus, it also year-old girl. Islam is the only world religion with a written, clearly attempts to replace Him and the Bible with the teachings of articulated agenda of forceful world conquest. Jihad (“holy war”) Mohammed and the Koran as the final revelation of God. We are in against all infidels (non-Muslims) is one of Islam’s fundamental a war for the truth, with the “spirit of anti-Christ.” (For more beliefs. The Koran places all the people of the world into two groups: information on Islam I recommend George Grant’s The Blood of the “The House of Peace” (“Islam”) or the “House of War” (everybody Moon; and The Closed Circle, by David Pryce-Jones.) else). You either accept Islam or you are a target for destruction. Muslim militants simply take the commands of the Koran seriously. Mohammed vs. Jesus The Koran also teaches that Jesus did not die on the cross. Rather Shortly after September 11 the international television and print it teaches that an “imposter” was crucified, meaning that Jesus was media began a massive campaign attempting to whitewash Islam. not raised from the dead, and is not the Son of God. Of course, they say that Christianity is just as bad. They are correct with regard to the atrocities which were committed by so-called Islam and the Spirit of Anti-Christ “Christians” in the Crusades, Inquisition and pogroms. But they miss “Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is the root of the matter. Jerusalem-based AP reporter David Dolan antichrist who denies the Father and the Son” (1 John 2:22). “Anti” clarifies this important point: is a Greek preposition that has two meanings: “against,” and “in place of.” The ultimate purpose of the “spirit of anti-Christ” is to put a Modern Muslim apologists note that incessant conflicts also false Messiah in the place of the true Messiah—Jesus the Jew, the racked “Christian” Europe….Yet there is a fundamental Prince of Peace. Not only is the spirit of anti-Christ against Jesus, difference between Christianity and Islam, and it is the key it seeks to replace Him with an imposter. Allah, the moon god (note to understanding why we are precariously perched on the 10 The Rise and Fall of Islam The Rise and Fall of Islam 11

edge of a precipice….European leaders and warriors were female captives is a virtue. Women have few rights under Islam. hardly imitating the Jewish Prince of Peace or His first century Afghanistan is a prime example, but is only one of many. In some disciples when they violently lashed out against each other. places Muslim women are “circumcised” with scissors or knives, so But warring Muslim leaders….have precisely reflected the they are unable to have pleasure during sex. This is even true in so- bloodstained actions of their revered Prophet and earliest called “moderate” Muslim dictatorships, like Egypt. Men may also followers.…No contemporary Muslim….can deny Muhammad have up to four wives. Martyrs for the cause of Islam are told they was a quintessential jihad warrior….most justify his violent go to heaven where seventy virgins supposedly await them, and that actions as sanctioned by Allah, as recorded in the Koran. His seventy family members will also go to heaven, if they blow themselves powerful example of what one does to religious opponents up with some Jews. who stand in the way of the spread of Islam is the main reason Today over one billion people are held in subjection to totalitarian why men like Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden can find Islamic regimes. Women and children have few rights in countries myriads of Islamic defenders for their violent actions today, where power is held by wealthy tyrants and murderers who harbor even sometimes those directed against fellow Muslims (“Holy and encourage global terrorism. There has never been a democracy Violence,” David Dolan, Crisis Update, 3 October 2001). in a Muslim nation. An “Islamic republic” is a contradiction in terms. We are in a war to the death with the spirit behind Islam. What Dolan is right. Mohammed shed the blood of thousands. Jesus was unleashed on September 11 for all the world to watch as it allowed His own blood to be shed for our salvation. happened was a horrific demonstration of the murderous spirit of Islam. It was a worldwide warning. Satan’s Masterpiece Jesus described Satan as a “murderer from the beginning…. Islam is one of Satan’s masterpieces. It is built upon lies, half- he is a liar and the father of lies” (John 8:44). Israel was chosen by truths, terror, and mass murder, all of which continues today in God to give the world His Word (the Bible), and His Messiah, His Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Son, to redeem the world. Jesus is coming back to Jewish Jerusalem Sudan, Nigeria and the Palestinian Authority. After the Gulf War, (see Zech. 14:4 and Acts 1:11) when the Jews will finally have received Saddam Hussein’s oldest son Uday oversaw the systematic mass their Messiah (Rom. 11:26-27). Today many are already turning murder of over one hundred thousand Iraqi Muslims. (Some reports to Him. even say three hundred thousand.) They had been held in one of Pharaoh, Haman, Herod, Hitler and now Hamas (“violence”) have Iraq’s notorious prisons (information taken from “The Jerusalem all tried to destroy Israel and God’s redemptive plan. (Why did the Report,” p.28-29, January 28, ‘02). Hafez Assad, the father of Syria’s Palestinian Muslims support Hitler in World War II and Saddam present dictator, liquidated forty thousand of his own Muslim people. Hussein in the Gulf War?) The murderous spirit behind Islam hates Mohammed became the self-proclaimed prophet-priest of a false Israel because the Jews have been restored to their ancient homeland, religion, which worships a false god called “Allah.” His followers which God gave them through an everlasting covenant. The goal of were and are characterized by male domination, power, and violence. Islam is to annihilate Israel. The Koran teaches that the appropriation and distribution of all But God is watching over His Word to perform it. Those who 12 The Rise and Fall of Islam The Rise and Fall of Islam 13 attack Israel, “the apple of God’s eye,” “His anointed ones,” will be Israeli media have recently disclosed that Muslims are covertly contending with Jehovah Tsevaot, “the Lord God of armies” (see Ps. destroying any remains of the First and Second Temples. In fact a 105:7–15). large bulge has recently appeared for all to see on the face of the Western Wall. “The Wailing Wall”—the holiest place in Judaism— The Spirit of Islam Upon the Seed of Ishmael is the remaining section of the retaining wall of the Second Temple. When the Islamic hordes invaded and subjugated the Middle East, Muslims claim that there were no Jewish temples in Jerusalem, and the spirit of Islam (“anti-Christ”) came upon the descendants of that the Jews are liars who have no right there. Jerusalem is not Ishmael and Esau-Edom. We have seen that Ishmael and Esau were even mentioned in the Koran. However, Jerusalem is written over rejected by Abraham and Isaac. For millennia the wound of rejection three hundred times in the Bible. For over eighteen hundred years has manifested itself through envy, rebellion, revenge and murder. devout Jews have prayed toward Jerusalem three times a day. At We are in the continuing war between the half-brothers Ishmael and every Jewish wedding the couple declares that they will not forget Isaac. Mohammed was also rejected by Judaism and Christianity. Jerusalem as they break a glass. Rejection demands revenge. The Koran is a counterfeit “holy book,” which contradicts the truth of the Bible. The Covenant of Death Against Israel In Psalm 83 we have a clear prophetic picture of the situation in The casting out of Ishmael has been productive of bitter fruit, Israel today. The enemies of God state: “ ‘Come, and let us cut them surviving in the religion of Mohammed….Little did Sarah off from being a nation, that the name of Israel be remembered no know, when she persuaded Abraham to take Hagar that she more!’ For they have consulted [“plotted”] together with one consent was originating a rivalry which has been in the keenest strife [“heart”]; they form a confederacy [“cut a covenant”] against You” through the ages, and which oceans of blood have not stopped. (vs. 4-5). The Muslims claim descent from Ishmael. (All the Men of And who are these conspirators against Jehovah and the nation the Bible p.160.) of Israel? “The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites….Amalek; Philistia [Gaza]” (vs. 6-7). There is a clear listing of all the Muslim nations The Battle for Jerusalem surrounding Israel today. And here is what these Muslim nations The Dome of the Rock shrine to Allah was built upon the Temple are saying: “Let us take for ourselves the pastures of God for a Mount above the ruins of the First and Second Temples. I have only possession” (v. 12). The PLO has never rescinded its covenant calling entered the shrine once, and then I was “prayed up” and was with a for the destruction of Israel. Iran, Iraq, and Syria have publicly called team of intercessors. Inside there is an exposed rock, where a sign for the liquidation of Israel. Tiny little Israel is an island of in several languages proclaims the lie that upon that rock Abraham embarrassment and “desecration” in the Islamic sea of pride and offered up his son Ishmael. Over one billion deluded people believe dominion in the Middle East. By its very existence in “Mohammed’s this lie. Other Arabic inscriptions proclaim: “Allah is the only God, land” Israel brings shame on the honor of Islam. On April 3, 2002, and has no son. Mohammed is his prophet.” Yasser Arafat lied on the Al-Jazeera TV network, that “the Palestinian Israel has given authority over the Temple Mount area to Islam. people have been rooted in this land before the time of Abraham.” 14 The Rise and Fall of Islam The Rise and Fall of Islam 15

In Arabic he proclaimed the way to victory is through suicide bombings The “Land for Peace” Lie of innocent Israelis. We need to understand that mass murderers Israel is God’s land which He chose to give the Jewish people, the are not martyrs. descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, in an everlasting covenant.

Who is Occupying Whom? He is the Lord our God; His judgments are in all the earth. The Arab claim that the land of Israel was theirs and was taken He remembers His covenant forever; For a thousand away from them by the Jews is a lie with no historical basis. According generations, The covenant which He made with Abraham, to Joan Peters in her carefully documented book, From Time and His oath to Isaac, and confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, Immemorial, perhaps 90% of the Arabs migrated here beginning in to Israel as an everlasting covenant, Saying, “To you I will the late nineteenth century, after Diaspora Jews began returning to give the land of Canaan as the allotment of your inheritance.” their homeland as pioneers. When they were few in number, indeed very few, and strangers Israel became a nation two thousand years before the rise of Islam in it. When they went from one nation to another. From one and long before there existed any Arab nation. Israel has been the kingdom to another people, He permitted no one to do them national homeland of the Jewish people since biblical times. It was wrong; Yes, He rebuked kings for their sakes, saying: “Do subsequently “occupied” more than fifteen times, by nations such as not touch My anointed ones, and do My prophets no harm” Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome and the Ottoman Turks (Ps. 105: 7–15). (1517-1917). They were followed by the British, who, under the Mandate of the League of Nations (later the U.N.) ruled in order to The judgment of God awaits those nations who attempt to change renew a homeland for the Jewish people. Jews have had a continuous the borders of God’s covenant land of Israel. presence in Israel for over 3,300 years. The PLO propaganda machine has mastered the “Big Lie” They Shall Not Devour Israel technique. They have attempted to rewrite history, and by continuous In September 1993, when the secret Oslo peace accords were repetition on TV, radio, in books and newspapers, their lies have made public, Karen and I were in Finland. As I sought the Lord come to be believed by a mass general audience who do not know about the consequences of Israel selling her birthright, the Holy the true history of this disputed land. Spirit quickened this verse to me: “The Syrians before and the Arabs are not descendants of the Philistines (who came from Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with an open mouth” Crete). Rather the Arabs came from the Arabian peninsula, now (Isa. 9:12). This is what has been happening since the Oslo peace called Saudi Arabia, and are descendants of Ishmael. Because of accords were signed. Open mouths are still trying to devour Israel. massive oil deposits in Arab countries, Europe, Russia, Scandinavia, They will not succeed. Britain and the U.S., acting out of self-interest, are silent or consenting to the gross Arab distortions of history. The real question is: “Who The Apple of God’s Eye is occupying whose land?” The Word of God has the answer. In these last days the nations who attempt to force Israel into territorial compromise will have a controversy with the Lord of Hosts. 16 The Rise and Fall of Islam The Rise and Fall of Islam 17

The Word of the Lord is clear: “He who touches you [Israel] touches happen in Kosovo, Indonesia, Mozambique, Uganda, Nigeria and the apple [“pupil”] of His eye” (Zech. 2:8). God will deal severely Afghanistan. The Lord is beginning to shake the empire of Islam. with these nations: “For surely I will shake My hand against them, When I was teaching young leaders in Kosovo in the summer of and they shall become spoil for their servants. Then you will know 1999, all of them were ex-Muslims. The young church that has the Lord of hosts has sent Me” (v. 9). emerged there since the war consists almost entirely of former God spoke through the prophet Joel concerning the judgment Muslims. Since September 11 over two thousand Afgans have come which will surely come upon those nations who divide His land: to the Lord. There is massive revival in the midst of terrible persecution in Indonesia, as well as northern Mozambique. Fifty thousand For behold, in those days and at that time, Muslims have come to the Lord in Algeria. In Isaiah, Chapter 63, When I bring back the captives of Judah and Jerusalem, God says that He will judge Edom (Islam) and there will be a mighty I will also gather all nations, move of salvation: And bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; And I will enter into judgment with them there Who is this who comes from Edom, On account of My people, My heritage Israel, With dyed garments from Bozrah, Whom they have scattered among the nations; This One who is glorious in His apparel, They have also divided up My land (Joel 3:1-2). Traveling in the greatness of His strength? — “I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save” (v. 1). Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Greece, Rome, Germany, Britain and the Soviet Union have all experienced the wrath of God because of their I believe the Bible clearly prophesies the fall of Islam. This treatment of Israel. scripture predicts that the collapse will be violent and bloody, but U.S. President George W. Bush and his wife Laura are born-again multitudes will be saved. The Lord will tread the winepress of His believers. We earnestly pray he aligns himself with the Word of God wrath alone, “For the day of vengeance is in My heart, and the year and not with worldly counselors and coalitions. David Wilkerson of the redeemed has come” (v. 4). God promises that Islam’s strength prophesied with this warning in January 2002: “Let me say it again: will be “brought down” (v. 5). We need to pray for the Lord to hasten ‘Diligently pray that President Bush will be given the spirit and godly this day. zeal of Josiah, the king of Israel who turned a godless society back Jeremiah, Chapter 49, is another prophetic passage concerning to God. If President Bush touches Israel—if he allows the Palestinians the fall of Islam. Speaking against Edom, the Lord of Hosts (“armies”) to have a portion of Jerusalem as their capital—we are doomed.” A says that He “will bring the calamity of Esau upon him” (v. 8). In U.S. Senator gave that message to President Bush. this violent conflict with Islam, He says there will be many “fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in Me” The Fall of Islam (v. 11). This is already happening in Mozambique, Afghanistan and Before Jesus returns, Islam will fall and the Lord will sweep Indonesia. millions of former Muslims into His kingdom. It is beginning to 18 The Rise and Fall of Islam The Rise and Fall of Islam 19

Take up the Elijah Cloak The principality behind Islam (is it Satan himself?) hates Israel. I believe the Spirit is calling and commissioning an army of The Edomites joined the Babylonians in the destruction of Jerusalem. missionaries to take up the cloak of the Elijah legacy, and go to the Today Islam intends to destroy Israel so the Messiah won’t come back widows and orphans—the Hagars and the Ishmaels—of the Islamic to Jewish Jerusalem. The Lord of Hosts promises a horrific and world. Iraq may be next. God is moving mightily in all the former bloody confrontation—“blood shall pursue you,”—since Islam was Soviet Republics that are now Muslim nations. In March 2002, an birthed and is bathed in bloodshed. God promises justice and Iraqi believer stood in our meeting and asked forgiveness for what retribution. his nation has done to Israel. He had a message to Israeli Arabs and The Lord continues in His prophecy, saying that because Islam Palestinians to embrace God’s purposes for Israel. Amazingly, he intends to possess the land of Israel and has said “ ‘We will possess had been led to the Lord by an Iranian believer. them,’ although the Lord was there, ‘therefore, as I live,’ says the Lord God, ‘I will do according to your anger and according to your Blood for Blood envy which you showed in your hatred against them; and I will make Perhaps the most specific prophecy about God’s judgment upon Myself known among them when I judge you. Then you shall know Islam is the entire 35th Chapter of Ezekiel. The Lord tells the prophet that I am the Lord’ ” (v. 10–12). Millions of Muslims will come to to prophesy against Mount Seir. We have seen that “seir” represents know He is Jehovah, not Allah. God will finally judge the envy, hatred a demonic root of Edomite paganism. When the demonized anti- and violence of Islam against the true church and against Israel. Christ religion of Islam overran the Middle East, the spirit of Islam The church and Israel will realize that God did it. So will the remnant also came upon the descendants of Ishmael and Esau-Edom. I have of Islam. What a scenario we face in the near future—Jews, nominal even seen this spirit manifest itself in blatant anti-Semitism through Christians, and Muslims coming to the Lord in the millions. Christian missionaries who have been working with Muslims. God told Ezekiel to prophesy that He—“Adonai Jehovah”—would stretch God has a Controversy Against Islam out His hand against Edom and make them desolate. But out of the God has a controversy with Islam because they have blasphemed judgment and destruction would come a mighty revival: “Then you Him. They have boasted against God and Israel. The Lord concludes shall know that I am the Lord” (v. 4). This is happening today in His awesome prophecy by saying, “Thus says the Lord God [“Adonai Kazakhstan, Nigeria, and Algeria. We are to prophesy and pray for Jehovah”]: ‘The whole earth will rejoice when I make you this to be accomplished throughout the Muslim world. desolate….then they shall know that I am the Lord’ ” (v. 14-15). The The Lord then states why and what He will do to Islam. “Because whole world witnessed the demonic bloodbath of September 11 and you have had an ancient [“everlasting”] hatred, and have shed the the whole world will also witness the fall of Islam. blood of the children of Israel by the power of the sword at the time As I listened to a portion of the State of the Union address of of her calamity, when her iniquity came to an end, ‘therefore, as I President Bush in January 2002, the Lord spoke to me that Mr. Bush live,’ says the Lord God, ‘I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall is “the rod of God.” I believe he is God’s man who has the wisdom pursue you; since you have not hated blood [“bloodshed”], therefore and courage to pre-emptively destroy weapons of mass destruction blood will pursue you’ ” (vs. 5-6). now being developed by the Islamic nations of Iraq and Iran. He also 20 The Rise and Fall of Islam The Rise and Fall of Islam 21 warned the despotic regime of North Korea, the last major communist that Jews use Christian and Muslim blood to make matzah for stronghold, where thousands of Christians are incarcerated, starved, Passover. A televised version of this book is shown on Arabic TV in and martyred today. Civilization is in a race against time as terrorist the Middle East. organizations and tyrants are driven to acquire more biological and As these articles were running in a Saudi Arabian state-controlled nuclear arsenals, warheads and delivery systems. newspaper, the Saudi Arabian government offered their new much- It was revealed in February 2002, that Iran has given ten thousand publicized “peace plan” for Israel and the Palestinians. Did the Western missiles to Lebanese terrorists. They are capable of hitting the major world forget that fifteen of the nineteen Muslim terrorists aboard cities of Israel. Iranian revolutionary guards are now in Lebanon, the doomed American airliners on September 11 were from Saudi along with 35,000 Syrian troops. They are just twenty-five miles Arabia, as is Osama bin Laden? Can Israel possibly believe the sincerity from Haifa. Iran has warned and threatened Israel not to consider of a corrupt Arab dictatorship that has shown nothing but hate to attacking its nuclear power plants, which Russia is building for them. Israel for over half a century? In Saudi Arabia anyone found accepting Israel destroyed Iraq’s nuclear power in 1981. Thank God. Iran another religion is beheaded. promises to “retaliate in ways unimaginable to any Israeli politician” Islamic hatred for Israel and the “Christian” West found its perfect (The Jerusalem Post, Feb. 5, 2002). In January 2002, in a daring expression on that clear September morning of September 11. Six raid in the Red Sea, Israeli commandos captured the “Karine A” ship. months later the “Passover massacre” of twenty-nine, mostly elderly, Fifty tons of explosives and weapons were on board. The ship was Jews celebrating the Passover Seder meal at a seaside hotel not far financed by Iran and was on its way to Gaza. from us, became another expression of such hate. In the month of March 2002, one hundred twenty-five Israelis died in terrorist attacks Islam’s Harvest of Hate and suicide bombings. On March 10, 2002, a major Saudi Arabian state-controlled newspaper published a two-part series stating that “the Jewish people Incitement —“To Stir up to Action” must obtain human blood so that their clerics can prepare holiday In Israel we live under the dark cloud of the Palestinian Authority’s pastries….The Jews’ spilling blood to prepare pastry for their holidays raw incitement to hatred and murder. For instance, the Palestinian is a well-established fact….all throughout history.” Rich detail was people heard these words from an Arafat-appointed spokesman and offered about how Jews supposedly ritually-slaughter Christian and an Arafat-funded program on live official P.A. television: “The Muslim children ten years old or younger for Passover. A similar Jews….they must be butchered and killed, as Allah the almighty said: series of articles appeared in a major state-controlled Egyptian ‘Fight them. Allah will torture them at your hands’….Have no mercy newspaper last year. In Muslim states, including the Palestinian on the Jews, no matter where they are, in any country. Fight them, Authority, all news media are controlled by the governments. Such wherever you are. Wherever you meet them, kill them” (quoted in articles (and books) are simply reappearances of the ancient anti- The Washington Post, March 31, 2002). Semitic blood libel that began in “Christian” Britain and was We are facing an entire generation of Palestinians indoctrinated popularized in Europe during past times of terrible persecution of and schooled in hatred of the Jews. An Arabic translation of Mein the Jews. “The Matzah of Zion” is a popular Syrian book claiming Kampf (Hitler’s manifesto) is now a bestseller in the “territories.” 22 The Rise and Fall of Islam The Rise and Fall of Islam 23

The poisonous incitement of the Palestinian media against Israel has Damascus” cried: “Syria must unite the Arab would against the been birthed, funded, written, taught and broadcast by the Palestinian infidels—the West and the Jews.” His son publicly told the Pope that Authority during the eight years of the Oslo “peace process.” This Israelis are “Nazis.” The “Butcher of Baghdad,” Saddam Hussein, murderous hatred has exploded precisely in the era in which Israel took an ancient oath to restore the glories of Babylon and “to wash has agreed to major concessions of territory, the establishment of my hands and feet in the blood of the infidels for the glory of Babylon the Palestinian Authority, and to thousands of Palestinian police forever.” And the ayatollahs of Teheran vow to destroy the Jews and actually given arms by Israel. The “land for peace” delusion has the “Great Satan” of America. become the reality of “land for war.” After vilifying Israel for eight years through every channel at his A Modern History of Hate disposal, Arafat’s state-controlled media now glorify “martyrdom Here are some milestones in the recent history of the age-old operations,” as Muslim mothers and fathers appear proudly on TV conflict being waged in Israel today. The Balfour Declaration of 1917 after sending their sons and daughters to their death so they can kill declared that Palestine was to be a homeland for the Jewish people. as many Jews as possible. In 1922 the British gave three-fourths of Mandatory Palestine to the During the Passover holiday, as the Christian world celebrated Arabs and named it Jordan. Seven years later the ancient Jewish Easter Sunday, March 31, 2002, a Muslim suicide bomber blew himself community in Hebron was massacred by Arabs. During World War up along with fourteen Jews and Israeli Arabs in a Haifa restaurant II the grand mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, met with managed by Israeli Arabs. The Palestinian campaign of lies and Hitler in an attempt to solve the “problem of the Jewish element in hatred has birthed an orgy of unprecedented murder-suicide. An Palestine….by the same method that the question is now being Arab pastor friend of ours was driving by the restaurant when it blew settled in the Axis countries.” The Arab world rejected the U.N. up. He sent his family home and then helped put out the flames on partition plan of 1947, that would have created a Jewish and a burning bodies, as a girl screamed from her car, “My Daddy is in Palestinian State. In 1948 five Arab armies invaded the newly there!” Her father had gone in to pick up some salads. Later the established State of Israel. Holocaust historians estimate that two pastor walked home covered with Jewish and Arab blood. The next million Jews perished because Britain refused to let them return to day the highest-ranking Egyptian Muslim cleric declared that female Mandatory Palestine. (See Prophecy Today, July-August, 2002.) suicide bombers are sanctioned by the Koran. From 1948 until 1967 all Israelis were prevented from praying in Jordanian-controlled Jerusalem. Three Arab armies launched a “Millions of Martyrs Marching to Jerusalem” “battle of annihilation” against Israel in 1967. Six days later, Israel On March 29, 2002, two days before this “Passover Massacre,” Mr. controlled Jerusalem for the first time in centuries. Now all faiths Arafat told the Arab network of Al-Jazeera TV: “To Jerusalem we are allowed to worship there. The Jews had been excluded by Jordan march—martyrs by the millions.” He repeated his mantra five times. from 1947–1967. Middle Eastern incitement of hatred and murder from Cairo, In 1972 the PLO slaughtered Israel’s Olympic delegation in Beirut, Teheran, Baghdad and Damascus is consistently proclaimed Munich, Germany. Later that year Egypt and Syria launched a in schools, mosques, universities and the media. Assad, the “Fox of surprise attack on Yom Kippur. Mr. Arafat supported Saddam Hussein 24 The Rise and Fall of Islam The Rise and Fall of Islam 25 during the Gulf War. After signing the Oslo accords, Chairman Arafat transformed into radicals for Jesus, and leading their own people to consistently called (in Arabic) on the Muslim world to wage “jihad salvation. The Lord is saving a remnant outside their countries and to eliminate the State of Israel.” Arafat told President Clinton at many will return home to evangelize their own Muslim people. Camp David that there never has been a Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, as PA-controlled television featured children singing in Arabic, “When The Tabernacle of David I wander in Jerusalem, I will be a suicide bomber.” Several days later The end-time “Elijah Company” will be used “to restore all things,” the renewed terrorist attacks of the intifada (“Arab uprising”) began as Jesus prophesied. One of the things that will be restored is “the on Rosh HaShanah, 2000, the Jewish New Year. tabernacle of David, which has fallen down” (Amos 9:11; Acts 15:16). The tent (or booth) of David was where the king communed with “A Season of the Sudden” the Lord. David sat (“remained”) before the Lord in the tent where God will have the last word. Islam will be humbled, and millions the ark of His Presence stood (2 Sam. 7:18). Those walking in the of captives will be set free. “Therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘I Elijah legacy will be consistently saturated with the presence of God. will also stretch out My hand against Edom….and make it desolate. The restored tabernacle of David also represents the descendants of I will lay My vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel, David, his spiritual offspring who are warriors and worshippers, like that they may do in Edom according to My anger, and according to the psalmist king. Amos prophesied that God was going to raise up My fury; and they shall know My vengeance,’ says the Lord God” the ruined tabernacle, and beautify it and complete it as in “the days (Ezek. 25:13-14). of eternity” (Amos 9:11). Israel will not wait to be destroyed by Iran, Iraq, Syria or Who will be the partakers of this restored intimacy with the Egypt. In the Six-Day War when Arab armies prepared to attack her, Lord and the magnificent multi-ethnic worship released there? The Israel destroyed the Egyptian air force before it could get off the biblical Jewish roots will be restored to the church and Jews and ground. If Israel’s very survival is threatened again she will strike Arabs will be worshipping Jesus together—as they are beginning to Damascus, Baghdad, and Teheran. In the Gulf War we had a three- do here on Mount Carmel. Not only will Arabs and Jews be in God’s minute warning of incoming Iraqi scuds. Today, the warnings will be “house of prayer for all nations” (Isa. 56:7), but they will be joined measured in seconds. We are in a “season of the sudden.” by “all the Gentiles who are called by My name” (Amos 9:12). This is where we are heading. And who will accomplish this mighty end- Muslim Harvest time work? It will be Jehovah “who does this thing” (v. 12). In the midst of God’s coming judgment upon Islam, there are I have been blessed to taste of the restored tabernacle of David also wonderful prophecies of the ingathering of a mighty harvest of with brothers and sisters from the Palestinian Authority, Syria, Muslim souls. The entire vision of Obadiah is a picture of God’s Lebanon, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the Arab Emirates, Kuwait, judgment upon Edom. However, the prophet’s vision concludes Sudan, Nigeria, Kosovo, Malaysia and Indonesia. I have also worshiped with this marvelous promise: “Then saviors [“those who have been with my Egyptian brothers in Cairo. No demonic power will stop saved”] shall come to Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, the fulfillment of the Elijah legacy of the “one new man in Christ.” and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s” (Obad. 21). I see jihad warriors At the Jerusalem Council in Acts 15 the Jewish prophets Paul and 26 The Rise and Fall of Islam The Rise and Fall of Islam 27

Barnabas described how the Holy Spirit had been poured out upon cross and prayed over the throng of people. We were witnessing a the Gentiles. James (“Jacob”) proclaimed that the prophesied “firstfruits” fulfillment of Eph. 2:14-15: “For He Himself is our peace, restoration of the tabernacle of David had begun, “So that the rest who has made both one [Jew and non-Jew], and has broken down of mankind may seek the Lord” (v. 17). The salvation of the house the middle wall of separation, having abolished in His flesh the of Israel and the remnant of Islam is an eternal longing in the heart enmity….so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus of God. Isaac and Ishmael will be one in the Father’s house. “Known making peace.” to God from eternity are His works” (v. 18). The true church will be in the forefront of this mighty restoration “Shalom” and “Salaam” of the “one new man,” as we answer the call to pick up the cloak of In June 2002, Karen and I ministered at the annual conference Elijah and accept our end-time mandate as forerunners and finishers. of the Pentecostal Church of Finland. Thirty thousand people attended from all over Finland. The theme was “Isaac and Ishmael”—reaching out to Jews and Muslims. At one meeting Karen was asked to sing in Hebrew, while a brother from Egypt was to sing in Arabic. However, the Egyptian was not able to obtain a visa to leave his country. When Karen was asked if she could sing another song in his place she told the organizers that she could sing something in Arabic. At the meeting, which was held in two huge tents, Karen felt impressed by the Lord to sing the Arabic worship song, “Salaam” (“Peace”). The words are those spoken by Jesus, as recorded in John 14:27: “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you.” After Karen finished singing she sat down. A former Muslim from Israel came to the pulpit to share about his TV ministry to Muslims in Europe. With tears in his eyes he said, “I was so moved when the Jewish sister from Israel sang ‘Salaam.’ My friend from Egypt who could not come today was supposed to sing in Arabic. He is the one who wrote ‘Salaam.’ ” (Karen did not know this when she chose to sing that particular song.) Then the ex-Muslim asked Karen to come up and stand with him in prayer for Jesus to reveal Himself to Muslims and Jews. There was a large rugged wooden cross next to the pulpit. Karen and the Arab man from Israel (“Isaac and Ishmael”) stood together under the 28 The Rise and Fall of Islam 29

Appendix Twenty Facts About Israel and the Middle East by William Bennett, Jack Kemp, Jeane Kirkpatrick May 22, 2002

he world’s attention has been focused on the Middle East. We T are confronted daily with scenes of carnage and destruction. Can we understand such violence? Yes, but only if we come to the situation with a solid grounding in the facts of the matter—facts that too often are forgotten, if ever they were learned. Below are twenty facts that we think are useful in understanding the current situation, how we arrived here, and how we might eventually arrive at a solution.

Roots of the Conflict 1. When the United Nations proposed the establishment of two states in the region—one Jewish, one Arab—the Jews accepted the proposal and declared their independence in 1948. The Jewish state constituted only 1/6 of one percent of what was known as “the Arab world.” The Arab states, however, rejected the UN plan and since then have waged war against Israel repeatedly, both all- out wars and wars of terrorism and attrition. 30 The Rise and Fall of Islam Appendix 31

In 1948, five Arab armies invaded Israel in an effort to eradicate Yasser Arafat, chairman of the PLO and president of the PA, has it. Jamal Hussenini of the Arab Higher Committee spoke for repeatedly targeted and killed Americans. In 1973, Arafat ordered many in vowing to soak “the soil of our beloved country with the the execution of Cleo Noel, the American ambassador to the last drop of our blood.” Sudan. Arafat was very closely aligned with the Soviet Union and other enemies of the United States throughout the Cold War. In 2. The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was founded in 1991, during the Gulf War, Arafat aligned himself with Saddam 1964—three years before Israel controlled the West Bank and Hussein, whom he praised as “the defender of the Arab nation, Gaza. The PLO’s declared purpose was to eliminate the State of of Muslims, and of free men everywhere.” Israel by means of armed struggle. To this day, the website of Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian Authority (PA) claims that the entirety 5. Israel has, in fact, returned most of the land that it captured of Israel is “occupied” territory. It is impossible to square this during the 1967 war and right after that war offered to return all with the PLO and PA assertions to Western audiences that the of it in exchange for peace and normal relations; the offer was root of the conflict is Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and rejected. As a result of the 1978 Camp David accords—in which Gaza. Egypt recognized the right of Israel to exist and normal relations were established between the two countries—Israel returned the 3. The West Bank and Gaza (controlled by Jordan and Egypt from Sinai desert, a territory three times the size of Israel and 91 1948 to 1967) came under Israeli control during the Six Day War percent of the territory Israel took control of in the 1967 war. of 1967 that started when Egypt closed the Straits of Tiran and Arab armies amassed on Israel’s borders to invade and liquidate 6. In 2000, as part of negotiations for a comprehensive and durable the state. It is important to note that during their 19-year rule, peace, Israel offered to turn over all but the smallest portion of neither Jordan nor Egypt had made any effort to establish a the remaining territories to Yasser Arafat. But Israel was rebuffed Palestinian state on those lands. Just before the Arab nations when Arafat walked out of Camp David and launched the current launched their war of aggression against the State of Israel in Intifada. 1967, Syrian Defense Minister (later President) Hafez Assad stated, “Our forces are now entirely ready to initiate the act of liberation 7. Yasser Arafat has never been less than clear about his goals—at itself, and to explode the Zionist presence in the Arab homeland. least not in Arabic. On the very day that he signed the Oslo The time has come to enter into a battle of annihilation.” On the accords in 1993—in which he promised to renounce terrorism brink of the 1967 war, Egyptian President Gamal Nassar declared, and recognize Israel, he addressed the Palestinian people on “Our basic objective will be the destruction of Israel.” Jordanian television and declared that he had taken the first step “in the 1974 plan.” This was a thinly veiled reference to the 4. Because of their animus against Jews, many leaders of the “phased plan,” according to which any territorial gain was Palestinian cause have long supported our enemies. The Grand acceptable as a means toward the ultimate goal of Israel’s Mufti of Jerusalem allied himself with Adolf Hitler during WWII. destruction. 32 The Rise and Fall of Islam Appendix 33

8. The recently deceased Faisal al-Husseini, a leading Palestinian Have no mercy on the Jews, no matter where they are, in any spokesman, made the same point in 2001 when he declared that country. Fight them, wherever they are. Wherever you meet the West Bank and Gaza represented only “22 percent of Palestine” them, kill them.” and that the Oslo process was a “Trojan Horse.” He explained, “When we are asking all the Palestinian forces and factions to 11. Over three-quarters of Palestinians approve of suicide bombings— look at the Oslo Agreement and at other agreements as ‘temporary’ an appalling statistic but in light of the above facts, an unsurprising procedures, or phased goals, this means that we are ambushing one. the Israelis and cheating them.” The goal, he continued, was “the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea,” i.e. the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea—all of Israel. The State of Israel 12. There are 21 Arab countries in the Middle East and only one 9. To this day, the Fatah wing of the PLO (the “moderate” wing that Jewish state, Israel, which is also the only democracy in the was founded and is controlled by Arafat himself) has as its official region. emblem the entire state of Israel covered by two rifles and a hand grenade—another fact that belies the claim that Arafat desires 13. Israel is the only country in the region that permits citizens of nothing more than the West Bank and Gaza. all faiths to worship freely and openly. Twenty percent of Israeli citizens are not Jewish. 10. While criticism of Israel is not necessarily the same as “anti- Semitism,” it must be remembered that the Middle East press is, 14. While Jews are not permitted to live in many Arab countries, in fact, rife with anti-Semitism. More than fifteen years ago the Arabs are granted full citizenship and have the right to vote in eminent scholar Bernard Lewis could point out that: “The Israel. Arabs are also free to become members of the Israeli demonization of Jews [in Arabic literature] goes further than it parliament (the Knesset). In fact, several Arabs have been had ever done in Western literature, with the exception of Germany democratically elected to the Knesset and have been serving there during the period of Nazi rule.” Since then, and through all the for years. Arabs living in Israel have more rights and are freer years of the “peace process,” things have become much worse. than most Arabs living in Arab countries. Depictions of Jews in Arab and Muslim media are akin to those of Nazi Germany, and medieval blood libels—including claims 15. Israel is smaller than the state of New Hampshire and is surrounded that Jews use Christian and Muslim blood in preparing their by nations hostile to her existence. Some peace proposals including holiday foods have become prominent and routine. One example the recent Saudi proposal demand withdrawal from the entire is a sermon broadcast on PA television where Sheik Ahmad West Bank, which would leave Israel 9 miles wide at its most Halabaya stated, “They [the Jews] must be butchered and killed, vulnerable point. as Allah the Almighty said: ‘Fight them: Allah will torture them at your hands.’ 16. The oft-cited UN Resolution 242 (passed in the wake of the 1967 34 Appendix Appendix 35

war) does not, in fact, require a complete withdrawal from the piece with Hitler’s proclamation that German land had to be West Bank. As legal scholar Eugene Rostow put it, “Resolution “Judenrein” (empty of Jews). Arabs can live freely throughout 242, which as Undersecretary of State for political affairs between Israel, and as full citizens. Why should Jews be forbidden to live 1966 and 1969 I helped produce, calls on the parties to make or to own land in an area like the West Bank simply because the peace and allows Israel to administer the territories it occupied majority of people is Arab? in 1967 until ‘a just and lasting peace in the Middle East’ is achieved. When such a peace is made, Israel is required to withdraw In sum, a fair and balanced portrayal of the Middle East will reveal its armed forces ‘from territories’ it occupied during the Six Day that one nation stands far above the others in its commitment to War—not from ‘the’ territories nor from ‘all’ the territories, but human rights and democracy as well as in its commitment to peace from some of the territories.” and mutual security. That nation is Israel.

17. Israel has, of course, conceded that the Palestinians have legitimate (Used with permission of Empower America) claims to the disputed territories and is willing to engage in negotiations on the matter. As noted above, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered almost all of the territories to Arafat at Camp David in 2000.

18. Despite claims that the Israeli settlements in the West Bank are the obstacle to peace, Jews lived there for centuries before being massacred or driven out by invading Arab armies in 1948-49. And contrary to common misperceptions, Israeli settlements— which constitute less than two percent of the territories—almost never displace Palestinians.

19. The area of the West Bank includes some of the most important sites in Jewish history, among them Hebron, Bethlehem and Jericho. East Jerusalem, often cited as an “Arab city” or “occupied territory,” is the site of Judaism’s holiest monument. While under Arab rule (1948-67), this area was entirely closed to Jews. Since Israel took control, it has been open to people of all faiths.

20. Finally, let us consider the demand that certain territories in the Muslim world must be off-limits to Jews. This demand is of a THE ELIJAH LEGACY The Prophetic Significance for Israel, Islam and the Church in the Last Days

Restoration of The Double the Prophetic Portion The Elisha Confronting Generation Jezebel The The Rise and Forerunner - Fall of Islam Finisher Anointing End-Time Harvest

DAVID DAVIS is the Senior Pastor of Kehilat HaCarmel (Carmel Assembly) on Mt. Carmel, Israel where his wife Karen serves as Worship Leader. The Davises are also the founders of Beit Nitzachon (House of Victory) rehabilitation center in Haifa. David is ordained with World Challenge International Ministers Fellowship, founded by David Wilkerson, who began the Teen Challenge model of drug rehabilitation. The Davises are citizens of Israel where they have raised their two foster sons, Yeshurun and David.

If you are interested in ordering the book The Elijah Legacy or for a complete listing of additional ministry materials available from David and Karen Davis, please visit the website www.carmel-assembly.org.il or write to Kehilat HaCarmel, P.O. Box 7004, Haifa 31070, Israel